November 19, 2024 • 19 mins
Comedian Learnmore Janosi talks with Nick about America's Got Talent and doing standup in different parts of the world.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I still speaking that that should not have made it
to the rest of us. Thoughts.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Chuck Chuck check, We're live, baby, Welcome back to the
podcast Inside Thoughts.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hope you're having a great week.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I got a good interview for you at the end
of the podcast, comedian learn More Genosi. Dude's been all
around the world doing stand up. You can do stand
up in like twenty different languages. He's hilarious. So got
that for you coming up at the end of the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
How you doing you doing good? Did you uh?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Did you waste your What was that Friday night watching
the the Jake Paul Mike Tyson Fight. Yeah, we we
all did because they put it on Netflix. Like you
didn't have to pay pay per view for it. You're
just like, yeah, this is on Netflix. You know Netflix
is and putting any other there shows out that I
got to watch, no new movies dropped. I'll watch and
(01:05):
hope that maybe Mike Tyson knocks out Jake Paul. But
I got to give some respect to Jake Paul man.
He didn't kill Mike Tyson, and he got him a
bunch of money. And it kind of looked like there
was a point in time where he could have killed
Mike Tyson because Mike Tyson's one hundred years old and
Jake Paul's on steroids at twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Seven, so it could have been bad. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
People were like, dude, the fight was fixed, man, it
was fixed. Tyson had him in the first round. Yeah,
it probably was fixed, dude. But also Jake Paul keeps
getting away with it because we keep watching his stuff,
Like Jake Paul keeps promoting this shit making millions of dollars.
I think him and Tyson both made like twenty million dollars,
(01:47):
and we still watch it thinking, maybe Jake Paul lose
because he's so hateable. I gotta see if he loses.
It's the perfect thing, dude. He just watched wrestling in
the nineties and was like, I can do that. But
just for me, you should have known Mike Tyson wasn't
winning that fight or he wasn't gonna try to win
that fight when he was giving.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That speech to that little kid. Do you see that
there was a little kid.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I don't know, like if it was like the Nickelodeon
Reporter of the Year or something, but they got to
interview Mike Tyson before the fighters, like some twelve year
old girl.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
She's like, I'm here with Iron Mike Tyson.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Mister Tyson, what do you think your legacy is like?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And he was like, I don't care about legathy. You know,
I'm gonna be dead. I'm just gonna die one day.
I'm not gonna be there anymore. So legacy is just
something that people made up. And yes, I don't care
about legacy. Right there, you should have known.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, I'm about to let Jake Paul act like a
boxer for twenty million.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Dollars and people still bet on it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like that should have been illegal, dude, you should not
be able to bet on that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It's like betting on the WWE. People still did.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I had one of my buddies text me and go
cause he's in a state where you know, like DraftKings
isn't legal. So he was like, hey, make a bet
for me. I got Tyson beating Jake Paul. I go, no,
call the gambling hotline number. It's not even legal in
your state. And you're still trying to give away money.
He's like, come on, dude, Tyson's gonna win. No, he's
(03:18):
not stop doing that. I just like I wish, I
wish I did not know what Jake Paul was doing.
I really don't, but like the Internet keeps showing him
to me, and it's shit like that. That made me realize,
like there's too many different age groups that have access
to each other on the Internet. You know, it used
(03:39):
to be sectioned out. Back to my day, used to
be sectioned out. You know, twelve year olds didn't talk
to forty five year olds. Forty five year olds didn't
have like the option of even hearing what a twelve
year old thought about, because I don't give a fuck
what a twelve year old thinks, you know what I mean.
I'm also not forty five, but if you get on Twitter,
(04:00):
it's the same age difference. That's why I saw somebody
the other day, like a tweet the got I don't
know two hundred thousand wikes. Who was like, what do
you do when you're twenty six years old? Do you
just like go to the old folks home and die?
It's like, oh my god, we have eleven year olds
on the internet. It used to be sectioned off, like
you would just have to listen to what people your
(04:22):
own age were talking about. Why if you were in
a neighborhood and you were younger than all the kids,
and you said.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Something like, I think Jurassic Park is cool.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
They call you gay and make fun of you, and
that's they call you Jurassic Park boy every time you
came through. That's what happened. But the Internet lets you
see the thoughts of everybody, and you're just you're not.
Ames just pointed out me, she could do that happen
to you. Yeah, I thought t Rex's were cool when
I was twelve. Then they made fun of me and
gave me a wedgie. It was like, I can't play
(04:49):
with dinosaurs and dragon balls he anymore. I gotta care
about sports. I always cared about sports. I just you know,
Jurassic Park was Jurassic Park, dragon balls and Ninja turtles,
all huge deals up up until I.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Was like twelve.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think Ames just lost a little respect for me. See,
this is this is why they bullied me. But that's
how it should have been. You know, you just gotta
we got a section off, you know, the thoughts of people.
I don't care what a ten year old thinks. And honestly,
when I was a kid, I used to think that
I would care what like a sixty or seventy year
(05:28):
old would think, because you know, you get told like, oh,
the the older you go or the older you grow,
the more wisdom you gain. With great age comes great wisdom.
And it's like, no, if you had a conversation with
a six year seven.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Year old, they're stupid people. Is that pizza good? All right?
Will you heat me up a slice too? Please?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Got this? Uh this Beria taco pizza yesterday?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Didn eatics.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I just ordered too much food to hit the point
where I was like, gotta just I'm gonna spend way
too much much money on food, passed the point of
being able to make rational food decisions. So I just
ordered like forty bucks worth of food and only eight
twenty of it, so we got a whole pizza.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Anyway, I'm just yapping. I thought I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I thought I was like a professional yapper, you know
what I mean, stand up comedian, podcaster, former radio personality.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I thought I could just I could yap with the
best of them. But apparently.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
There's just like another league of yap ptology that goes
on and I'm not part of it. Aimes went out
with all of her friends for like a girl's brunch
or a girl's night out or whatever, and she came
home so happy and I was like, hey, I was it.
She was like, we just we just talked. It was
(06:50):
it was amazing. We just we're all talking over each other,
like simultaneously talking about different things, but understanding what we
were all talking about. And then there was just this
synergy at the end, one person would say one thing
and it'd wrap up all the other thoughts. She was like,
we just had a good yap off And I was like,
needs to be studied, Like Ames, I gotta be honest,
(07:13):
I don't know, because y'all, just women in general are
already thinking about twelve to fifteen things at once. I
don't understand how you go to a brunch with eight
to ten girls all have a conversation about different things
and then at the end be.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Like, yeah, well that's that's not how do you say it?
They don't do y'ahs.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
It's just like it's just this amazing thing where you're talking,
but you're like listening to someone else's conversation because obviously
it's not one big conversation, it's like six, but like
you have the ability to talk, but like also know
what everybody else says, it's just it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I think that's what AI wants to happen. But anyway,
speaking of wild things that happened, found out that I'm
not a professional yapper like I thought I was, And
me and Ames found out we were like kind of poor.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Remember when we were on the elevator with that guy.
So after.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
After Ames came home from girls night, she was a
little schloshed, but we were going out to get some
food before I had to do a stand up show,
and we were in the elevator. This guy was like
already in the elevator. He came from like the top
floor in the building. You know, we live in a
pretty nice place. The higher the floors, the more expensive.
(08:45):
This guy was on the top floor, and uh, I
think like somebody got on and hit like the third
level of the parking deck, which is just one above
the normal one, and Aimes, just a little drunk, just
goes that's where the rich people park. We only park
on the second floor of the parking deck. And this
(09:07):
guy just hadn't said a word the whole time, just
starts cracking up and he goes, no, no, I don't
Park on that level. I was like, wait, this guy
just flex that he has crazy amounts of money out
of nowhere. It's just like a level of rich I
didn't know existed, like because I always thought, you know,
(09:27):
if you got a bunch of money, you don't say anything.
But this guy was like, I have the perfect opportunity
to let these people know that they're poorer pieces of shit.
Sitting in the elevator with somebody rich. Yep, pigs messing
with the tree. We got the Christmas tree up. Christmas
tree looks beautiful. You can put the pizza in. What
(09:49):
are you waiting on me for? Put in the oven? Okay,
you gotta reheat pizza in the oven. Man put in
the microwave. He gets off of him, all right, give
me a couple more minutes. Apple Intelligence is like the
new way the iPhone's getting marketed, and it's getting all
(10:10):
my nerves. How they're marketing it. I guess it's just
like Apple's version of AI. But they're just marketing it
like to shitty people. Like the commercial that they had
was this lady, this mom, you know, family of four,
The kids were kind of grown up. The husband's sitting
in the living room. She's in the kitchen just like
(10:32):
rubbing her eyes, making a cup of coffee, and her
two daughters walk in to the living room.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And go happy birthday dad.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And she, like the mom, gives a look like, oh shit,
I forgot it.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Was his birthday.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So what she does is she goes on Apple Intelligence
and makes this terrible little PowerPoint montage of the daughters
and the dad, and she walks over and is like,
this is for me for your birthday, and the dad's.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Like, oh, this is amazing, Thank you, honey.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And then she walks out of the room and like
looks at the camera and winks like, yeah, I got
one over on my dumb husband.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's like, bitch, you forgot it was his birthday. You're
a bad person. Hey, you forgot your husband's birthday.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Your phone is gonna make you a terrible home video
in two seconds and just walks away, looks at the
camera like yeah, I'm the shit, and that just goes
iPhone sixteen Apple Intelligence.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Who are we marketing to?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Dude? This is the problem with society. Even the commercials
are making us be bad people. Okay, they're trying to
make us be bad people. We just we we gotta
be better. All right, I'm gonna do the headline of
the week and then get out here because Eames is
hungry and she wants pizza. Oh you got a British
(11:51):
word of the week. Okay, well, chew your cheese up.
Don't feed the cat cheese. What's the British word.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Of the week?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Said?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Hip?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Kip kip?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think you did say this one, but I forget
what it is using in the sentence Gonna go for
a kip, gonna go for a walk, gonna go for
a drink, gonna go for a murder sleep a nap? Yeah,
you did use that one, all right? Kip is a nap?
That is another episode of British people don't speak English?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Got the headline of the week. John Stamos is facing
backlash for wearing a bald cap and solidarity with his
Full House co star Dave Coolier, who was diagnosed with cancer.
So you guys know Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey. Uncle
Joey got cancer. He had to shave his head because
of chemo. And what do people do when they're family members,
(12:45):
their loved ones get cancer. They want to, you know,
sit in solidarity with them. Show them that they're going
through this journey, this battle with the person that has cancer.
They shave their head and go bald. To men, women,
it doesn't matter. Everybody does it right. John Stamos has
incredible hair, but now I'm starting to think that he
(13:06):
thinks if he shaves it off once, it's never gonna
grow back, and that's his whole personality.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
He put a bald cap on. He's like, the article
has these two pictures.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's Uncle Joey's sitting in the chair while Uncle Jesse,
with a bald cap, is shaving his head. And then
they're sitting next to each other, and John Stamos is
given like the blue steel look like, I look so
good in this ball cap, but I can't wait to
take it off and have my washous locks back as
soon as I leave Uncle Joey's house. It's like, come on, dude,
if you're gonna like, you know, if you just want
(13:39):
to do that, you know and like make a joke
or do something like that, that's fine, but guess what,
don't take pictures of it and try and act like
a good person like I'm standing in solidarity. No, you're
you're not doing it. You actually got to shave your hair.
But all right, anyway, that's enough of me, yapp and
I'm trying to get better at yapping as I go.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
We'll see how it is.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But I want to get it into this interview with
one of the funniest comedians in the world because he's
done stand up all over the place. Comedian learn more, Genosi,
what's going on, bro?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I'm good man. Thank you for cutting the funniest in
the world. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I had no problem. Man, you've been killing it. So
for those people who don't know, you've been on America's
Got Talent. You won Steve Harvey Spotlight, the Savannah Pan
African Award, Boston Comedy Festival Winner.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You've won all these awards.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Can you tell me what it's like because you are
from Zimbabwe, so doing stand up in Africa and then
winning all these awards, coming to the States doing it.
What's like the difference in crowd and kind of how
you shape your comedy to hit all audiences.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Yeah. So, first of all, I'm one of the fifth
generation comedians in my country. You know, comedy is such
a new thing that I had we had to introduce
to the people and you know, and try and build
an industry scratch, you know. So that's where I come from.
So that's a place where you place where you have
to perform in six different languages in different cities. You know.
(15:10):
So my ability to adapt to the audience actually helped
me to be in America and actually be able to
make the world last, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, that's amazing, like having a first of all, just
like build up comedy in a place that doesn't have it,
and then you speak six different languages to make sure
like hey, what's what?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
What? What language is the crowd speak here?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Okay, I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah that's crazy, that's it right there.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
It's always always a better like Okay, what's the slang
they used? What's the thing?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So yeah that's wild man.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So like, how did you like get the idea like
you wanted to be a comedian? How how did that
idea first happen in your head?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Well, my grandfather introduced me to comedy. You used to
watch comedy on his small black and white TV it
and I loved the way it just made him laugh,
you know, because you know, I remember this particular day
we didn't have he didn't. He was stressing on where
to get money to pay for my school fees and
buyass food, but then turned on the TV and then
start laughing. You know. I just loved what did for him,
(16:17):
you know, you know, and I just wanted to do
that for everybody, you know. So that's what got me
into comedy, just you know, watching it on TV and
just becoming it. I want to be a comedian, that's it.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That's awesome, man.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We're definitely gonna make some people laugh this Sunday at
the Raleigh Improv.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
What's a word more.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Genosi show like to someone who hadn't seen you before.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Exactly like my name. You get to learn more about
different things. That's the thing, you know. That's my name,
my real name, and I like that. It also helps
my comedy, you know, so you get to learn and
you get to just laugh and enjoy and forget about
all your trouble.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's awesome, Mags, we definitely need that now. I saw
the clip I was cracking up of the clip of
you on America's Got Talent, where You're like, I saw
something I'd never seen before. I saw poor white people,
like I came here to ask you for a dollar.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You're asking me for a time, bro. That was hilarious, so.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
What what is like the process of going through America's
Got talent? Like did you go to like a tryout
to see if you could get like on the big
TV show? And then you're wondering hoping like okay, I
hope this makes them laugh, Like what's the process?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Like, No, you're tough because I've never done American TV before,
so you know, I was. I was very nervous because
that show, uh many people watching, millions of people around
the world watch it. So I was on that stage.
I was representing Zimbabwe, you know, with that like it
(17:52):
or not, there's a little eyeballs looking at it. So
I had to bring it. So that was me just
ringing all of me on that stage. You know when
you watch this the process on, Oh you're tough, but
I did it, you know. Yeah, and then now I'm
preparing to go back.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was about Sade, do you have your new dates?
Like when can we expect you to be back on
the show?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah, so maybe on the twenty seventh of August. That's
when I'll be back. I can't wait to do this.
You know it's going to be, uh another introduction of me,
another side of me and with good jokes. So I
can't wait.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's awesome man, Well, you got anything else you want
to promote for I let you get out of here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Like, where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah? I can find me on my Instagram and learn
more underscore Jo Nazi it's you know, you can use
that in every platform. So yeah, I got some clips
online and everything, so yeah, that'll be expossible.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well, hey, one more, I appreciate you taking the time
talk to me. I got to see you at the
Rubber City Comedy Fest fo Up and Acron a couple
of years back. Yeah. I was like, this dude is
crazy hilarious. So it's cool to see you keep doing anything.
You're killing that.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I appreciate it. Thanks for call money for CO money
for CO money for CO money for
I still speaking that that should not have made it
to the rest of us. Thoughts.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Chuck Chuck check, We're live, baby, Welcome back to the
podcast Inside Thoughts.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hope you're having a great week.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I got a good interview for you at the end
of the podcast, comedian learn More Genosi. Dude's been all
around the world doing stand up. You can do stand
up in like twenty different languages. He's hilarious. So got
that for you coming up at the end of the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
How you doing you doing good? Did you uh?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Did you waste your What was that Friday night watching
the the Jake Paul Mike Tyson Fight. Yeah, we we
all did because they put it on Netflix. Like you
didn't have to pay pay per view for it. You're
just like, yeah, this is on Netflix. You know Netflix
is and putting any other there shows out that I
got to watch, no new movies dropped. I'll watch and
(01:05):
hope that maybe Mike Tyson knocks out Jake Paul. But
I got to give some respect to Jake Paul man.
He didn't kill Mike Tyson, and he got him a
bunch of money. And it kind of looked like there
was a point in time where he could have killed
Mike Tyson because Mike Tyson's one hundred years old and
Jake Paul's on steroids at twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Seven, so it could have been bad. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
People were like, dude, the fight was fixed, man, it
was fixed. Tyson had him in the first round. Yeah,
it probably was fixed, dude. But also Jake Paul keeps
getting away with it because we keep watching his stuff,
Like Jake Paul keeps promoting this shit making millions of dollars.
I think him and Tyson both made like twenty million dollars,
(01:47):
and we still watch it thinking, maybe Jake Paul lose
because he's so hateable. I gotta see if he loses.
It's the perfect thing, dude. He just watched wrestling in
the nineties and was like, I can do that. But
just for me, you should have known Mike Tyson wasn't
winning that fight or he wasn't gonna try to win
that fight when he was giving.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That speech to that little kid. Do you see that
there was a little kid.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I don't know, like if it was like the Nickelodeon
Reporter of the Year or something, but they got to
interview Mike Tyson before the fighters, like some twelve year
old girl.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
She's like, I'm here with Iron Mike Tyson.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Mister Tyson, what do you think your legacy is like?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And he was like, I don't care about legathy. You know,
I'm gonna be dead. I'm just gonna die one day.
I'm not gonna be there anymore. So legacy is just
something that people made up. And yes, I don't care
about legacy. Right there, you should have known.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, I'm about to let Jake Paul act like a
boxer for twenty million.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Dollars and people still bet on it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like that should have been illegal, dude, you should not
be able to bet on that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It's like betting on the WWE. People still did.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I had one of my buddies text me and go
cause he's in a state where you know, like DraftKings
isn't legal. So he was like, hey, make a bet
for me. I got Tyson beating Jake Paul. I go, no,
call the gambling hotline number. It's not even legal in
your state. And you're still trying to give away money.
He's like, come on, dude, Tyson's gonna win. No, he's
(03:18):
not stop doing that. I just like I wish, I
wish I did not know what Jake Paul was doing.
I really don't, but like the Internet keeps showing him
to me, and it's shit like that. That made me realize,
like there's too many different age groups that have access
to each other on the Internet. You know, it used
(03:39):
to be sectioned out. Back to my day, used to
be sectioned out. You know, twelve year olds didn't talk
to forty five year olds. Forty five year olds didn't
have like the option of even hearing what a twelve
year old thought about, because I don't give a fuck
what a twelve year old thinks, you know what I mean.
I'm also not forty five, but if you get on Twitter,
(04:00):
it's the same age difference. That's why I saw somebody
the other day, like a tweet the got I don't
know two hundred thousand wikes. Who was like, what do
you do when you're twenty six years old? Do you
just like go to the old folks home and die?
It's like, oh my god, we have eleven year olds
on the internet. It used to be sectioned off, like
you would just have to listen to what people your
(04:22):
own age were talking about. Why if you were in
a neighborhood and you were younger than all the kids,
and you said.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Something like, I think Jurassic Park is cool.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
They call you gay and make fun of you, and
that's they call you Jurassic Park boy every time you
came through. That's what happened. But the Internet lets you
see the thoughts of everybody, and you're just you're not.
Ames just pointed out me, she could do that happen
to you. Yeah, I thought t Rex's were cool when
I was twelve. Then they made fun of me and
gave me a wedgie. It was like, I can't play
(04:49):
with dinosaurs and dragon balls he anymore. I gotta care
about sports. I always cared about sports. I just you know,
Jurassic Park was Jurassic Park, dragon balls and Ninja turtles,
all huge deals up up until I.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Was like twelve.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think Ames just lost a little respect for me. See,
this is this is why they bullied me. But that's
how it should have been. You know, you just gotta
we got a section off, you know, the thoughts of people.
I don't care what a ten year old thinks. And honestly,
when I was a kid, I used to think that
I would care what like a sixty or seventy year
(05:28):
old would think, because you know, you get told like, oh,
the the older you go or the older you grow,
the more wisdom you gain. With great age comes great wisdom.
And it's like, no, if you had a conversation with
a six year seven.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Year old, they're stupid people. Is that pizza good? All right?
Will you heat me up a slice too? Please?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Got this? Uh this Beria taco pizza yesterday?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Didn eatics.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I just ordered too much food to hit the point
where I was like, gotta just I'm gonna spend way
too much much money on food, passed the point of
being able to make rational food decisions. So I just
ordered like forty bucks worth of food and only eight
twenty of it, so we got a whole pizza.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Anyway, I'm just yapping. I thought I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I thought I was like a professional yapper, you know
what I mean, stand up comedian, podcaster, former radio personality.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I thought I could just I could yap with the
best of them. But apparently.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
There's just like another league of yap ptology that goes
on and I'm not part of it. Aimes went out
with all of her friends for like a girl's brunch
or a girl's night out or whatever, and she came
home so happy and I was like, hey, I was it.
She was like, we just we just talked. It was
(06:50):
it was amazing. We just we're all talking over each other,
like simultaneously talking about different things, but understanding what we
were all talking about. And then there was just this
synergy at the end, one person would say one thing
and it'd wrap up all the other thoughts. She was like,
we just had a good yap off And I was like,
needs to be studied, Like Ames, I gotta be honest,
(07:13):
I don't know, because y'all, just women in general are
already thinking about twelve to fifteen things at once. I
don't understand how you go to a brunch with eight
to ten girls all have a conversation about different things
and then at the end be.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Like, yeah, well that's that's not how do you say it?
They don't do y'ahs.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
It's just like it's just this amazing thing where you're talking,
but you're like listening to someone else's conversation because obviously
it's not one big conversation, it's like six, but like
you have the ability to talk, but like also know
what everybody else says, it's just it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I think that's what AI wants to happen. But anyway,
speaking of wild things that happened, found out that I'm
not a professional yapper like I thought I was, And
me and Ames found out we were like kind of poor.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Remember when we were on the elevator with that guy.
So after.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
After Ames came home from girls night, she was a
little schloshed, but we were going out to get some
food before I had to do a stand up show,
and we were in the elevator. This guy was like
already in the elevator. He came from like the top
floor in the building. You know, we live in a
pretty nice place. The higher the floors, the more expensive.
(08:45):
This guy was on the top floor, and uh, I
think like somebody got on and hit like the third
level of the parking deck, which is just one above
the normal one, and Aimes, just a little drunk, just
goes that's where the rich people park. We only park
on the second floor of the parking deck. And this
(09:07):
guy just hadn't said a word the whole time, just
starts cracking up and he goes, no, no, I don't
Park on that level. I was like, wait, this guy
just flex that he has crazy amounts of money out
of nowhere. It's just like a level of rich I
didn't know existed, like because I always thought, you know,
(09:27):
if you got a bunch of money, you don't say anything.
But this guy was like, I have the perfect opportunity
to let these people know that they're poorer pieces of shit.
Sitting in the elevator with somebody rich. Yep, pigs messing
with the tree. We got the Christmas tree up. Christmas
tree looks beautiful. You can put the pizza in. What
(09:49):
are you waiting on me for? Put in the oven? Okay,
you gotta reheat pizza in the oven. Man put in
the microwave. He gets off of him, all right, give
me a couple more minutes. Apple Intelligence is like the
new way the iPhone's getting marketed, and it's getting all
(10:10):
my nerves. How they're marketing it. I guess it's just
like Apple's version of AI. But they're just marketing it
like to shitty people. Like the commercial that they had
was this lady, this mom, you know, family of four,
The kids were kind of grown up. The husband's sitting
in the living room. She's in the kitchen just like
(10:32):
rubbing her eyes, making a cup of coffee, and her
two daughters walk in to the living room.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And go happy birthday dad.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And she, like the mom, gives a look like, oh shit,
I forgot it.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Was his birthday.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So what she does is she goes on Apple Intelligence
and makes this terrible little PowerPoint montage of the daughters
and the dad, and she walks over and is like,
this is for me for your birthday, and the dad's.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Like, oh, this is amazing, Thank you, honey.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And then she walks out of the room and like
looks at the camera and winks like, yeah, I got
one over on my dumb husband.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It's like, bitch, you forgot it was his birthday. You're
a bad person. Hey, you forgot your husband's birthday.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Your phone is gonna make you a terrible home video
in two seconds and just walks away, looks at the
camera like yeah, I'm the shit, and that just goes
iPhone sixteen Apple Intelligence.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Who are we marketing to?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Dude? This is the problem with society. Even the commercials
are making us be bad people. Okay, they're trying to
make us be bad people. We just we we gotta
be better. All right, I'm gonna do the headline of
the week and then get out here because Eames is
hungry and she wants pizza. Oh you got a British
(11:51):
word of the week. Okay, well, chew your cheese up.
Don't feed the cat cheese. What's the British word.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Of the week?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Said?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Hip?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Kip kip?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think you did say this one, but I forget
what it is using in the sentence Gonna go for
a kip, gonna go for a walk, gonna go for
a drink, gonna go for a murder sleep a nap? Yeah,
you did use that one, all right? Kip is a nap?
That is another episode of British people don't speak English?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Got the headline of the week. John Stamos is facing
backlash for wearing a bald cap and solidarity with his
Full House co star Dave Coolier, who was diagnosed with cancer.
So you guys know Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey. Uncle
Joey got cancer. He had to shave his head because
of chemo. And what do people do when they're family members,
(12:45):
their loved ones get cancer. They want to, you know,
sit in solidarity with them. Show them that they're going
through this journey, this battle with the person that has cancer.
They shave their head and go bald. To men, women,
it doesn't matter. Everybody does it right. John Stamos has
incredible hair, but now I'm starting to think that he
(13:06):
thinks if he shaves it off once, it's never gonna
grow back, and that's his whole personality.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
He put a bald cap on. He's like, the article
has these two pictures.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's Uncle Joey's sitting in the chair while Uncle Jesse,
with a bald cap, is shaving his head. And then
they're sitting next to each other, and John Stamos is
given like the blue steel look like, I look so
good in this ball cap, but I can't wait to
take it off and have my washous locks back as
soon as I leave Uncle Joey's house. It's like, come on, dude,
if you're gonna like, you know, if you just want
(13:39):
to do that, you know and like make a joke
or do something like that, that's fine, but guess what,
don't take pictures of it and try and act like
a good person like I'm standing in solidarity. No, you're
you're not doing it. You actually got to shave your hair.
But all right, anyway, that's enough of me, yapp and
I'm trying to get better at yapping as I go.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
We'll see how it is.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But I want to get it into this interview with
one of the funniest comedians in the world because he's
done stand up all over the place. Comedian learn more, Genosi,
what's going on, bro?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I'm good man. Thank you for cutting the funniest in
the world. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I had no problem. Man, you've been killing it. So
for those people who don't know, you've been on America's
Got Talent. You won Steve Harvey Spotlight, the Savannah Pan
African Award, Boston Comedy Festival Winner.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You've won all these awards.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Can you tell me what it's like because you are
from Zimbabwe, so doing stand up in Africa and then
winning all these awards, coming to the States doing it.
What's like the difference in crowd and kind of how
you shape your comedy to hit all audiences.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Yeah. So, first of all, I'm one of the fifth
generation comedians in my country. You know, comedy is such
a new thing that I had we had to introduce
to the people and you know, and try and build
an industry scratch, you know. So that's where I come from.
So that's a place where you place where you have
to perform in six different languages in different cities. You know.
(15:10):
So my ability to adapt to the audience actually helped
me to be in America and actually be able to
make the world last, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, that's amazing, like having a first of all, just
like build up comedy in a place that doesn't have it,
and then you speak six different languages to make sure
like hey, what's what?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
What? What language is the crowd speak here?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Okay, I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah that's crazy, that's it right there.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
It's always always a better like Okay, what's the slang
they used? What's the thing?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You know?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So yeah that's wild man.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So like, how did you like get the idea like
you wanted to be a comedian? How how did that
idea first happen in your head?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Well, my grandfather introduced me to comedy. You used to
watch comedy on his small black and white TV it
and I loved the way it just made him laugh,
you know, because you know, I remember this particular day
we didn't have he didn't. He was stressing on where
to get money to pay for my school fees and
buyass food, but then turned on the TV and then
start laughing. You know. I just loved what did for him,
(16:17):
you know, you know, and I just wanted to do
that for everybody, you know. So that's what got me
into comedy, just you know, watching it on TV and
just becoming it. I want to be a comedian, that's it.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That's awesome, man.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We're definitely gonna make some people laugh this Sunday at
the Raleigh Improv.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
What's a word more.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Genosi show like to someone who hadn't seen you before.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Exactly like my name. You get to learn more about
different things. That's the thing, you know. That's my name,
my real name, and I like that. It also helps
my comedy, you know, so you get to learn and
you get to just laugh and enjoy and forget about
all your trouble.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's awesome, Mags, we definitely need that now. I saw
the clip I was cracking up of the clip of
you on America's Got Talent, where You're like, I saw
something I'd never seen before. I saw poor white people,
like I came here to ask you for a dollar.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You're asking me for a time, bro. That was hilarious, so.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
What what is like the process of going through America's
Got talent? Like did you go to like a tryout
to see if you could get like on the big
TV show? And then you're wondering hoping like okay, I
hope this makes them laugh, Like what's the process?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Like, No, you're tough because I've never done American TV before,
so you know, I was. I was very nervous because
that show, uh many people watching, millions of people around
the world watch it. So I was on that stage.
I was representing Zimbabwe, you know, with that like it
(17:52):
or not, there's a little eyeballs looking at it. So
I had to bring it. So that was me just
ringing all of me on that stage. You know when
you watch this the process on, Oh you're tough, but
I did it, you know. Yeah, and then now I'm
preparing to go back.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was about Sade, do you have your new dates?
Like when can we expect you to be back on
the show?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah, so maybe on the twenty seventh of August. That's
when I'll be back. I can't wait to do this.
You know it's going to be, uh another introduction of me,
another side of me and with good jokes. So I
can't wait.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's awesome man, Well, you got anything else you want
to promote for I let you get out of here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Like, where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah? I can find me on my Instagram and learn
more underscore Jo Nazi it's you know, you can use
that in every platform. So yeah, I got some clips
online and everything, so yeah, that'll be expossible.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well, hey, one more, I appreciate you taking the time
talk to me. I got to see you at the
Rubber City Comedy Fest fo Up and Acron a couple
of years back. Yeah. I was like, this dude is
crazy hilarious. So it's cool to see you keep doing anything.
You're killing that.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I appreciate it. Thanks for call money for CO money
for CO money for CO money for
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